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Empty (051-075)

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Full bowls make empty brains — English
Good bargains empty the purse. — Italian
He who gives fair words feeds you with an empty spoon. — English
If your fields are not ploughed, your store house will be empty. — Chinese
If your pocket gets empty, your faults will be many. — African (Libya)
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If you go to sleep with an empty stomach, you will count the beams on the ceiling. — Yiddish
If the head be left empty, it is not well. — Turkish
If a bamboo tube sounds loudly, it is empty. — Filipino
If the hands are empty the mouth is empty. — Japanese
It is the petty expenses that empty the purse. — Italian
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It is hard to catch birds with an empty hand. — German
It is hard to labor with an empty belly. — Danish
It is bad marketing with empty pockets. — Dutch
It's hard to catch hawks with empty hands. — Dutch
Love ends when the can is empty. — Icelandic
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New churches and new taverns are seldom empty. — German
On an empty belly every burden is heavy. — Russian
One day's stay does not empty a granary. — African (Shona)
Prayer or no prayer, you can't eat out of an empty bowl. — Slovak
That is but an empty purse that is full of other men's money. — English
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The priest and the cock sing on an empty stomach. — Russian
The hunter that speaks too much, goes home empty handed. — Ugandan
The full sow knows not the squeak of the empty one. — Welsh
The ocean cannot be emptied with a can. — Yiddish
The heaviest burden is an empty pocket. — Yiddish
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